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Re: cannibalism among chimps
/\/\ (raven@kaiwan.com)
28 Aug 1996 00:28:34 -0700
In article <4ve18b$e3a@hermes.achilles.net>,
ykhan@achilles.net (Yousuf Khan) wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I don't know if this is the appropriate newsgroup to post this.
>If it isn't then just don't post any responses in this newsgroup
>and send me a message via e-mail telling me where to go.
>
>I was watching a show chronicleing the life of various tribes of
>chimpanzees. There was one tribe in which males would kidnap one
>of the babies from one of the mothers and ritualistically
>cannibalize the baby. Has there been any explanation found for
>such behaviour, since that show aired? It seems to happen only
>within one tribe of chimps, and they cannibalize their own
>youngsters, not necessarily youngsters from neighbouring tribes,
>which seemed particularly vicious to me (probably indicative of
>deep tensions within the tribe).
>
>Are there any sites devoted to this topic?
Not that I'm aware of, but I know something that can add to your
'database'. Another show, from Jane Goodall's study, showed a
mother/daughter pair that would once in a while, steal a baby
from within their tribe and cannibalize it. It was rather shocking
to Mrs. Goodall. In time, the mother died but the daughter did not
carry on this behavior.
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Steve "Chris" Price
Associate Professor of Computational Aesthetics
Amish Chair of Electrical Engineering
University of Ediacara "A fine tradition since 530,000,000 BC"
raven@kaiwan.com
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